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  • Bibliography
  • Daniel Walden, Professor Emeritus of American StudiesDirector (bio)

Publications

Books

American Reform: The Ambiguous Legacy. Yellow Springs, Ohio: Ampersand Press, 1967. 117 pp.
The Contemporary New Communities Movement in the U.S., edited by Gideon Golany and Daniel Walden. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974. 180 pp.
Conversations with Chaim Potok. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. 300 pp.
On Being Black, edited by Charles Davis and Daniel Walden. New York: Fawcett, 1970. 377 pp.
On Being Jewish, American Jewish Writers from Cahan to Bellow. New York: Fawcett, 1974. 480 pp.
Pennsylvania: An Ethnic Sampler. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press-WPSX, 1976. 38 pp.
Readings in American Nationalism, edited by Hans Kohn and Daniel Walden. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand-Reinhold, 1970. 169 pp.
Twentieth-Century American Jewish Fiction Writers. Columbia, S.C.: BC Publishers, 1984. 388 pp.
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis Writings. New York: Fawcett, 1972. 447 pp. [End Page 262]

Articles in Refereed Journals

"Abraham Cahan and Saul Bellow: Two Views of the Machine in the Ghetto." Ethnic Forum 3 (Fall 1983): 66-78.
"American Ethnic Studies and Film." Sightlines 11 (Fall 1977): 18-19.
"American Reform: The Ambiguous Legacy." Journal of Human Relations 15 (Third Quarter 1967): ix-xii, 1-118.
"The Batter and the Sweet: 'The Angel Levine' and 'Black Is My Favorite Color.'" Studies in American Jewish Literature 14 (1995).
"Bellow, Malamud and Roth: Part of the Continuum." Modern Jewish Studies Annual 3 (1979): 5-7.
"Benjamin Franklin's Deism: A Phase." The Historian 26 (May 1964): 350-61.
"Bernard Malamud: An American Jewish Writer and His Universal Heroes." Studies in American Jewish Literature 7 (Fall 1988): 153-162.
"Black Music and Cultural Nationalism, The Maturation of Archie Shepp." Negro American Literature Forum 5 (Winter 1971): 150-53.
"Chaim Potok: A Zwischenmensch in the Cultures." Studies in American Jewish Literature 4 (1985): 19-26.
"The Contemporary Opposition to the Ideas of Booker T. Washington." Journal of Negro History 45 (April 1960): 103-15.
"Dubois's Pan-Africanism: A Reconsideration." Negro American Literature Forum 8 (Winter 1974): 260-63.
"Flannery O'Connor's Dragon: Vision in 'A Temple of the Holy Ghost'" (with Jane Salvia). Studies in American Fiction 4 (Autumn 1976: 230-35.
"From Columbus to Portnoy: The Evolution of Philip Roth's Jewish American." Studies in American Jewish Literature 1 (Winter 1975): 38-39.
"From Image to Presence: Literary Merit and Social Value in 20th Century American Jewish Literature." American Jewish Archives 40, no. 1 (April 1988): 159-164.
"Goodbye Columbus, Hello Portnoy—and Beyond: The Ordeal of Philip Roth." Modern Jewish Studies Annual 1 (1977): 3-13.
"Henry Roth's Call It Sleep: Ethnicity, the Sign and the Power." Modern Fiction Studies 25 (Summer 1979): 268-72.
"The Intellectual and the American Dream: Possibilities and Disillusionment from the Jacksonians to the Progressives." Journal of Human Relations 15 (Third Quarter 1967): 13-25.
"Literary Anti-Semitism in Shakespeare, Eliot and Philip Roth." Sh'ma (December 24, 1976), 26-28.
"Nathaneal West: A Novelist of the Bizarre, Dystopist of the 1930s." Journal of American Culture 9 (Fall 1986): 19-25.
"Neil Simon: Toward Act III?" MELUS 7 (Summer 1980), 77-86.
"Notes on Ludwig Lewisohn." Jewish Spectator 40 (Summer 1975): 67-68.
"Parallels Between Chicano and Jewish-American Writing." MELUS 8 (Summer 1981): 24-30.
"Potok's Asher Lev: Orthodoxy and Art, the Core-to-Core Paradox." "In Honor of Sarah Cohen," edited by Carol Kessner and Ann Shapiro. Special issue, Studies in American Jewish Literature 24 (2010).
"The Problem of Color in the Twentieth Century." Journal of Human Relations 14 (First Quarter 1967): v-ix, 2-184. [End Page 263]
"Prospects for the Study of Bernard Malamud" Resources for American Literary Study 27, no. 1 (2000).
"Race and Imperialism: The Achilles Heel of the Progressives." Science and Society 31 (Spring 1967): 222-32.
"Reflections on Columbus' Medine: The Myth and Reality of the Jewish Immigrants to the New World 1880-1915." Modern Jewish Studies Annual 5 (Fall 1984): 5-13.
"The Resonance of Two-ness: The Urban Vision of Saul Bellow." Modern Jewish Studies Annual 2 (1978): 9-20.
"Richard Wright's American Dream: A 'Native Son' in...

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